IIRC if Dio believes he's under no threat he's relatively passive so he should be able to survive for a little, maybe dismember him with explosions for a few sec.
Depends really, he kills even if he doesn't think they're a threat as we see with Dire, but can he
become passive when he thinks that killing the foe isn't even worth his time and thinks his minions can do it without him.
For example, against Will and Jonathan,
he decided to just **** off, figured Bruford and Tarkus would make do and that he wasn't actually needed. (
Though he later claims that he didn't want to kill Jonathan himself and that he was being sentimental, might be him bullshitting or it might not, though he also says him being nice and ******* off was a weakness so he'll actually aim for the kill now)
Other times, like against Dire, he straight ***** him despite thinking of him as not a threat.
I guess it depends on how much Blade is "considered" a threat yeah (Unless we think Dio got over that and just kills foes now like with Dire after he seen Jonathan come back alive, if we take Dio at his words of "recognizing that weakness"), if he's considered one, Dio isn't gonna **** around a whole lot, if he isn't, Dio would straight up leave and have zombies deal with it instead. Though if Dio leaving and leaving Blade to a horde of zombies isn't an option then he'd probably at least try to finish him off maybe?
As for explosions, that might work, but it wouldn't be a permanent solution, as we know that even vampires below Dio can reform from being blasted to pieces from explosives, though it will give Blade a precious bit of time to think of something, but he also has to catch Dio in the explosion in the first place which might be difficult to pull off, I guess if he pulls it off it'd lead to a notable advantage but pulling it off would be tricky I think.
If he stabs Dio and the latter starts to freeze him he might legit chop his hand off to escape, he's done that in the past, had a prosthetic hand for a few years then the writers forgot lmao. SRSE would **** him up but Dio is relatively unwilling to use them compared to his other stuff.
Probably, but he'd still lose that arm, putting him at a disadvantage and limiting his capabilities somewhat, and could very easily snowball from there.
Dio could also freeze his legs to prevent him from escaping much like he did with Jonathan. This is especially important to note because unlike Jonathan, Blade won't know that he's gonna get frozen, or that Dio is even capable of it. Blade might realize his arm got frozen and opt to cut it off, but if Dio is being serious, he might have also frozen something like a leg or even his other arm in the mean time before, or while, Blade is realizing what happened, crippling Blade quite a bit, and that's without factoring in Dio actually pulled his powers back against Jonathan (Dio actively opted not fully freeze Jonathan solid, as if he did, he wouldn't have been able to turn Jonathan into his minion, in contrast to Dire who Dio didn't care about and as such, froze him completely).
Playing range against Dio might not be the smartest option, at least, not for a prolonged length of time, if Dio can't get in close, he might just resort to SRSE, after all, Part 1 Dio might be up his own ass but he isn't THAT stupid. SRSE definitely isn't Dio's lead though (
well, it's his lead as he's a head at least, as he learned to skip the bullshit but I don't think we're using post Jonathan Dio), but if his foe stays way out of CQC and Dio can't attack him under normal means (with very few exceptions that aren't useful at all, like veins and hair, and even then they don't have that big range), I'm not sure if Dio would still keep SRSE as a fallback, at that point that's about the only thing he could do?
Also, if Dio attempts to drink his blood
he would turn into a Marvel vampire which means Blade can kill him with the usual methods. Very fringe ofc.
True, but the inverse is also true, if Dio tries to inject him with vampiric/zombie substance, Blade would become a minion to Dio. Which might be likely or unlikely? If Dio takes a liking to him, he'd try and turn him, as seen with Jack and Jonathan, who Dio took a shine to and proceeded to (attempt in Jonathan's case) turn them. Though if Dio does take a liking and wants to turn him, he'd also be forced to not freeze Blade solid as he can't inject his zombie shit into a frozen corpse so it's a double edged sword there (Freezing limbs and stuff is ok, he just can't freeze them solid, basically head+central mass is safe if he wants you on his side).
Honestly, a lot of this relies on how Blade engages or goes about things. UV weapons is an instant win, the moment he uses them, he's likely to win and if he doesn't win, he's likely ****** Dio hard enough to where he can easily follow up with a win. CQC is probably a hard loss on Blade's end, he definitely outskills and has the higher power, but
mere contact is a issue and without knowing Dio can do it, and Dio actively uses flash freeze to lethal extents 99% of the time, the moment he realizes what's happening it could be very well to late or at the very least he'd be handicapped hard. If he leads with guns and they don't do much, what he does next might lead to his win or downfall, if he tries to CQC and see if he can outmuscle, tear apart, or just do something like destroy the head (Which is actually a win condition, Dio can regen brain and head damage, but complete head destruction is tough, like slicing his head in half or blowing it into large chunks is ok, but if you paste that shit, it's lethal) or heart or whatever, he'd probably lose, though continuing range might be good or bad, Dio does have a answer to long range via SRSE, but he won't whip it out right away but if Blade does nothing but try and do range it's gonna only be a matter of time till Dio says **** it and uses his beams, and when he does it'll be problematic for Blade given how dangerous they are (Plus they're spammable and can even deflect bullets as seen with Straizo), but if Blade can **** off and manage to lay traps for Dio and pull them off, like laying powerful explosives, UV stuff, etc, basically doing a Joseph, that could easily open Dio up to a killing blow if done right if not kill him outright depending on what he does.
I think anyway, I haven't read much Blade since like 2002.
